Dudley Rural District (RD) : Life & Death Statistics

Created: 1894   Abolished: 1929

These simple graphs compare Dudley with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
Fertility Rate 1911 to 1921 Live births per thousand women aged 20 to 49. The General Fertility Rate is usually defined relativ…
Illegitimacy Rate 1914 to 1925 Illegitimate Births as a percentage of all births. Until quite recently, vital registration statist…
Infant Mortality Rate 1914 to 1925 Deaths per thousand live births. This is a good overall measure of the health of a population, alt…
Standardised Mortality Ratio 1911 The actual number of deaths as a percentage of the expected number, computed from mortality rates f…

We hold these detailed statistics for Dudley, which we graph and tabulate here:

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
Births by legitimacy 1911 to 1929 Legitimacy (2)
Births by legitimacy & sex 1911 to 1929 Legitimacy (2)
Sex (2)
Births by sex 1911 to 1929 Sex (2)
Deaths by sex 1922 to 1929 Sex (2)
Infant Deaths 1911 to 1929 Infant Deaths (4)
Total Births 1911 to 1929 Total Live Births (1)
Total Deaths 1911 to 1929 Total Deaths (3)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.